# The Seed Marketing Regulations 2011, Paragraph 30: Minimum standards for purity and other species of seed in the sample

Extent: E+W+S+NI

The sample taken under paragraph 28(2) for the purposes of Council Directive 66/401/EEC must have the minimum standards set out in the following table.
Column header
Minimum analytical purity (% by weight)
Total weight of all other species (% by weight
Total weight of a single other species (% by weight
Seed of Rumex spp excluding R acetosella and R maritimus
Seed of couch
Seed of blackgrass
Limits of other specific species
Fine grasses
festulolium
98
1.5
0
0
10
0
red fescue
95
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
The sample must have no more than four seeds ryegrass, cocksfoot, meadow fescue and 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass
smooth-stalked meadowgrass
90
1.5
0.5
2
3
3
Maximum of 0.4% by weight of seed of other meadow
grass
Fodder grasses
cocksfoot
90
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
meadow fescue, tall fescue
98
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
0.3% rough stalked meadow grass, 0.3% ryegrass
hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass
98
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
0.4% annual meadowgrass, 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass
small timothy, timothy
98
1.5
0.5
4
10
10
0.3% Agrostis spp
Small seeded legumes
lucerne, red clover, white clover
98
1.5
0.5
10
10
10
0.3% Melitotus spp
sainfoin
98
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
0.3% Melitotus spp

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/463/schedule/2/paragraph/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-30
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